sider

n. One who takes a side. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sideralis. See Sidereal. ] 1. Relating to the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. “Sideral blast.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sideratus, p. p. of siderari to be blasted by a constellation, fr. sidus, sideris, a constellation. ] Planet-struck; blasted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sideratio. ] The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. Sideral, Consider, Desire. ] 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sidereal clock,
day,
month,
year. See under Clock, Day, etc. --
Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. [ 1913 Webster ]

German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sidereus. ] Sidereal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sideritis loadstone, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, of iron, from &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; iron. ] 1. (Min.) (a) Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron. (b) A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron. (c) An indigo-blue variety of quartz. (d) Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort. [ 1913 Webster ]